Abstrakt
Every language is characterized by numerous phenomena which deserve particular
attention. Among such phenomena in the German language, one should undoubtedly
mention multi-part word compounds, which in this article are also referred to
as multiple complex compounds, tapeworm compounds or tapeworm words. Various
questions related to this German language phenomenon made it possible to establish
the linguistic and extra-linguistic factors responsible for creating those long
and extremely long compounds, the areas in which they are created, their length
(depending on the number of letters), their position in the classifi cation of speech
parts and their forms. In order to arrive at research conclusions in the present article,
I have used the COSMAS II corpus. Examples of multi-part compounds come from
FOCUS magazine articles published between January 2000 and June 2014.
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